Escombres-et-le-Chesnois

Identity

Escombres-et-le-Chesnois (INSEE 08153) is in Ardennes (08), part of CC des Portes du Luxembourg. Population 342 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/08153-escombres-et-le-chesnois

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 18,048 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Services

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (KORELIA). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 361 (2012) → 342 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 278 (1990) → 342 (2023): 23 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 172, of which 7.6 % second homes and 11.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Pouru-Saint-Remy): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Escombres-et-le-Chesnois): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pouru-Saint-Remy): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pouru-Saint-Remy): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Messincourt): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DOUZY weather station, 7.2 km away at 153 m; the village itself is at 242 m. ^[11]

The village sits 89 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.89 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DOUZY, 7.2 km away at 153 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 89 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 871 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DOUZY, 7.2 km away at 153 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08153/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08153/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08153/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 08153/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08343
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08153
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 08289
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024